Uyat and the Culture of Shame in Central Asia
"An excellent addition to the literature on Central Asia! This volume makes a welcome and important contribution to the scarce scholarship on shame. This is crucial for understanding social mores and the preservation of social order in honour-and-shame societies. The focus on gender and sexuali...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | The Steppe and Beyond: Studies on Central Asia
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Shame
- Chapter 3: Purity vs. Safety: How Uyat Undermines Youth’s Sexual Literacy in Kazakhstan
- Chapter 4: ‘Uyat emes’ or the process of de-shaming in Kazakhstan
- Chapter 5: Ashamed to mother: The practice of ‘nebere aluu’ in Kyrgyzstan
- Chapter 6: The role of uyat or the culture of shame in the regulation of queer subjectivities in Kazakhstan, and forms of resistance against it
- Chapter 7: Public shaming as a form of accountability in Kazakhstani politics